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020 _a9781469648606
_q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050 0 4 _aE99
_b.S684 2019
049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aLewis, Courtney,
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245 1 0 _aSovereign entrepreneurs :
_bCherokee small-business owners and the making of economic sovereignty /
_cCourtney Lewis.
260 _aChapel Hill :
_bUniversity of North Carolina Press,
_c(c)2019.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
347 _adata file
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490 1 _aCritical indigeneities
504 _a2
505 0 0 _a"Economic identities : conceptions and practices --
_tTourism : "Where are the Indians?" --
_tBounding American Indian businesses --
_tPillars of sovereignty : the case for small businesses in economic development --
_tGovernmental support for Indianpreneurs : challenges and conflicts."
520 0 _a"[A] study of small businesses and small business owners who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). The EBCI has an especially long history of incorporated, citizen-owned businesses located on their reservation. Many people stop with casinos or natural-resource intensive enterprise when they think of Indigenous-owned businesses, but on Qualla Boundary today, Indigenous entrepreneurship and economic independence extends to art galleries, restaurants, a bookstore, a funeral parlor, and more. Lewis's fieldwork followed these businesses before and after the Great Recession, and against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Cherokee-owned casino. From this source base, Lewis reveals how these EBCI businesses have contributed to an economic sovereignty that empowers and sustains their nation both culturally and politically. This is a generative concept that helps to define what a distinctly Indigenous form of entrepreneurship looks like"--
_cProvided by publisher.
530 _a2
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650 0 _aCherokee business enterprises
_zNorth Carolina
_zCherokee Indian Reservation.
650 0 _aSmall business
_zNorth Carolina
_zCherokee Indian Reservation.
650 0 _aEntrepreneurship
_zNorth Carolina
_zCherokee Indian Reservation.
650 0 _aSovereignty
_xEconomic aspects.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2102023&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell